We had hoped to go to LA to picket for the Hubbard birthday
weekend, but due to work pressures I had to stay in Phoenix.
So, we visited the local org today.

Kathy and I picketed from 10:00 to 11:00 this morning.
It was a beautiful spring day in Arizona, about 70 degrees and sunny.

There were 7 cars in the Mesa site parking lot when we arrived.
Traffic was light, but we got a greater than average number of
honks and responses.

At about 10:30 a man came out from the building and walked over to
the sidewalk to talk to me. I just said "hello", and he responded with
"you are an atheist and should not be picketing a church!".
With that as a beginning, we "talked" for about 5 minutes before
another man came out and told the first guy that "there was a phone
call" for him.

During our conversation, the man, who claimed to be an OT 5,
denied that OT3 had anything to do with "the Marcabs". So I pointed
out the back of my "Scientology Kills" T-shirt with the direct quote
from Hubbard about the Galactic Empire.
He stated that he could be a Catholic and a Scientologist. I told
him that I knew that Hubbard said that Catholicism came from
"a madman" recalling the implants from Incident Two. He had
no response for that. I also pointed out that the CoS strongly
objects to "mixing practices" .

Kathy taped the whole confrontation, especially since the
man several times tried to block me from walking on the
sidewalk. I will post some stills from the video to alt.binaries.scientology
later this week.

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